Improvement in combined hanging baskets and bird-cages



S. VANSTONE Combined Hanging-Baskets and Bird-Gages.

No. 137,980. I PatentedApriH5,1873.

FIUIII WITNESSES. INVENTUH.

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SAMUEL VANSTONE, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED HANGING BASKETS AND BIRD-CAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 137,980, dated April 15, 1873; application filed March 24, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL VANSTONE, of the city and county of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and usefulOombinedBird-HouseandHangingBasket; and Ido hereby declare that thefollowin g specification, taken in connection with the drawing making a part of the same, is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Figure 1 is a view of my invention. 7 Fig. 2 is a vertical section through center of door.

The object of my invention is to produce a new article of manufacture designed to beautify and adorn the house or yard; and consists in the device for that purpose hereinafter described.

In my invention I combine with a bird house or cage of any tasteful design a basket of growing flowers, which is suspended under the same and at a suitable distance therefrom.

In the drawing, A, Figs. 1 and 2, is a bird house or cage designed for outdoor use, having three or more rods extending downward from the eaves thereof, to which is attached a pan or basket, B, which is filled with dirt and growing flowers set out therein. Underneath and attached to this basket B is a pan, 0, which is intended to catch the drip.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the bird house or cage A, the basket B, and the pan 0,- the Whole arranged in the manner substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

Witnesses: SAMUEL VAFSTONE.

WALTER B. VINCENT, JAMES H. PARSONS. 

